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Bambi in danger - poverty and unmet needs in Mauritania

Submitted by admin on Mon, 05/04/2009 - 16:10

Bambi is a 19-year old Mauritanian woman. Illiterate and poor, she is married and has a four-year-old daughter. Early in 2008, she was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. It took her 10 months of struggle to learn to read her blood glucose monitoring device and inject insulin.